My friend has an HO scale steam locomotive. The wheel arrangement is 0-6-6-0. I’ve never seen a loco like it![:0] I don’t know what it is!!![:(!] I’ve checked my books, my tapes, my DVD’s, and they all say nothing about a 0-6-6-0. It says Chatanooga on the tender. I need help! I’ve gotta know what it is![:0][:0][:0][:(!][:(!][:(!][:(!][|)]
To my knowledge there were only one series of 0-6-6-0s built. They were the first mallet types and they were employed on the Baltimore and Ohio. These were the first articulated locomotives of any kind in the United States. To my knowledge, one 0-6-6-0 still exists. It is #80 and last I knew resided at the B&O railroad museum in Baltimore. I also want to state I could be mistaken and there is a posibility the wheel arrangment is actually 0-8-8-0.
Some one thats a B&O fan will need to fill in the gap.
To get you started, here’s a couple of links:
http://www.toytrains1.com/mallet7.htm
If you go up one page from there, it has all the steam loco wheel arrangements, and the common names for them.
This is an interesting variation on the 0-6-6-0:
http://www.ironhorse129.com/Prototype/MasonBogie/mason_janus_0660.htm
Found both these links in 0.15 seconds on google with the words “0-6-6-0 locomotive” (no quotes)
Andrew
I believe there were also some logging engines that were 0-6-6-0 but on the whole they are rare regardless of who used them.
If you’re looking for an ID on the model, rather than the prototype itself, odds are that it is one of the following. Mantua offered several versions of a 2-6-6-2 logging engine, with and without a tender, for quite a number of years (1980-2000). It wouldn’t have taken much to just remove the leading and trailing pony wheels to get an 0-6-6-0. The other choice would be a model sold many years ago by Polk Hobbies under its Aristo-Craft name. This engine represented a heavier, mainline, locomotive (not a logger) supposedly built in the U.S.A. but exported to Japan.
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